Soda watee appaeatus



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.Patented Mar. 31,1896.

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SODA WATER APPARATUS.

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Patented Mar. 31, 1896.

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Patented'lvfar. 31, 1896.

AN DREW B GRAHAM. PHUTO'LITHD-WSHINGTONAO C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES F. KADE, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO EMMA ISABELLA KADE, OFSAME PLACE.

SODA-WATER APPARATUS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 557,274, dated March 31, 1896.

Application filed August 26, 1895. Serial No. 560,520. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern:

Be it knownthat I, CHARLES F. KADE, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Soda-Water Apparatus, of which the following is a specication.

This invention relates to certain features of improvement in the construction of apparatuses for dispensing soda-water, the features of the invention being, first, a novel means of supporting the syrup-jars so that they may be readily removed for filling or cleaning, and, second, a novel construction of valve having a separable stem, one portion of which is connected with the jar and the other portion of which is connected with the casing containing the jar, so that the former may be removed, leaving the valve in the closed position.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional elevation through 4a casing containing an icechamber and a receptacle for the jars, one of the latter being shown with its supports in side elevation. Fig. 2 is a similar view showing the jar and its support extended. Fig. 3 is a sectional plan showing two of the jars in relation to each other and to their containingcases. Fig. 4 is an elevation showing adetail with the fronts of the jar-cases removed, so as to show the suspending link. Fig. 5 is a detail view showing the valve or faucet in elevation, partly in section; and Fig. 6 is a section on line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

In the drawings, 7 represents the walls of the casing provided with an ice-chamber 8, and having a recess or niche 9 in its front to receive a series of syrup-jars. These jars (marked 10) are contained within pivoted cases or boxes 11, the latter being supported upon the swinging parallel links 12, pi voted to the front wall of the casing 7 These cases 1l are so supported that they will normally tend to swing out of the niche 9 and into the position shown in Fig. 2. They are held in place by the catches 13, which engage with the lower front corner of the casing. Except when it is desired to remove the jar the casing is of course held in place in its niche by the catch 13, but by depressing the latter the casing swings out, the jar may be removed and the empty casing pushed back into place while the jar is being refilled. The main object of this construction is to make the device so simple and so quickly. and conveniently operated that the front of the apparatus may always be kept closed without material loss of time, thus adding greatly to the neat appearance.

It will be observed that the cases contain- 6o ing the jars are so supported that in their outward movement they may clear the glass 17 in the filling position, and hence the row of glasses needs not be removed from under the faucets when the jar is to be refilled.

In furtherance of the general object of my invention I have so constructed the faucet that the jar may be removed without any manipulation of the faucet itself or the removal of any of its parts. To this end the faucet is 7o provided with a valve 14 having a divided stem,the members whereof are marked 15 and 16. The members 15 16 have mating or interlocking wings 15 and 10, each of which is hooked at one end to engage over the straight 7 5 ange of the mating wing. These wings extend over the stems in a plane substantially at right angles to the port 14 in the valve 14, and said wings can only be separated by an upward lift of the jar, the plug 14, stem 15, So and its wing 15a being secured to the jar, as seen in Figs. l and 4, while the parts 1G 16L are carried by the casing 11. The valve therefore is always closed when the jar is removed and thereby dripping is prevented. The construction above described provides a sodawater dispensing apparatus in which the syrup-j ars may be rapidly replenished and the attractive appearance of the apparatus preserved with but slight labor. 9o

It will be observed that the cases containing the jars are suspended upon the swinging arms or links 12 and that the weight of the case containing the jars is sufficient to swing it out into position for the removal of the jar. The case therefore-swings in the arc of a circle, and the case being slightly raised after it enters the niche no counterbalancing-weights are provided or necessary in this construction, the movable parts being so mounted as to disroo pense with the necessity of employing such weights.

It will also be noticed that the ease in being drawn out and pushed back maintains at all times its parallelism, and this is a distinct advantage over that class of apparatus in which the case is tipped forward in order to remove the jar.

It will further be observed that the valve proper remains connected to the jar and may be operated by using the wing 15a as a handle for turning the plug, and this is particularly useful in cleaning the jar and washin g out the valve. y y

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is as follows:

1.` A soda-water apparatus, comprising a casing provided with a niche openat its front and bottom and a j ar-support adapted to said niche, swinging arms pivoted at one end to said casing and atthe front of the niche and at their opposite ends to said jar-support in planes below their point of connection to the easing and the jar-support being adapted to contain a syrup-jar and to swing bodily beyond the plane of the front of y the casing whereby the j ar may be removed from the support upwardly, substantially as described.

2. A soda-Water apparatus comprising in combination a suitable easing having a niche open at its front andbottom, jar-supports comprising hollow cases, parallel links pivotally connected to the front wall of the casing and to said cases, and a catch to retain the cases in position and the pivots being so arranged that the cases move automatically out of the niche Whenreleased from the catch, substantially as described.

3. A faucet for soda-water apparatus hav ing a longitudinally-divided stem, each member whereof is `provided with an interlocking wing and the parts whereof areadapted to be separated by p longitudinal movement` when the valve is closed, substantially as described.

a CHARLES F. KADE.

lvitnesses l C. C LIN'rHroUiL y FREDERICK C. GOODWIN. 

